Lake Winnipeg is 1.01× the size of Vermont

Lake Winnipeg (lake) covers about 24,800 km² (9,570 mi²) and Vermont (state) about 24,600 km² (9,510 mi²). Below, both outlines are drawn at one scale and centred on each other. The Lake Winnipeg outline is Natural Earth’s, checked against the published area.

24,800km²Lake Winnipeg
24,600km²Vermont

50 km

Lake Winnipeg
Vermont

What fits

Vermont is 99% of the size of Lake Winnipeg.
Lake Winnipeg is larger by 155 km² (60.0 mi²), which is 0.6% of the area of Vermont.
Measured in Belgiums: Lake Winnipeg is about 0.81, Vermont about 0.80.

How they differ

Their centres are about 2,070 km apart.
A standard web map misstates the comparison: Lake Winnipeg at 53°N is drawn about 2.7× too large and Vermont at 44°N about 1.9×, so the map shows Lake Winnipeg as 1.41× the size of Vermont instead of 1.01×.
Together Lake Winnipeg and Vermont cover 49,400 km², close to the size of Slovakia (48,500 km², 2.0% smaller).
Lake Winnipeg's centre is 8.5° of latitude, about 950 km, farther north than Vermont's.
Lake Winnipeg is a lake and ranks 12th of the 104 lakes on sizeversus by area.
Vermont is a state of the United States; it is not drawn with its waters removed, and its measured area is the Natural Earth outline's.
Laid out flat, Lake Winnipeg stretches about 447 km north to south and 204 km east to west; Vermont about 255 km by 153 km.
Poured over Vermont, the 294 km³ that Wikidata records for Lake Winnipeg would stand 12 m deep.
Wikidata’s published figure of 24,400 km² agrees with our measured 24,800 km², to within 2%.

Who wins on what

Measure	Winner	By
Larger area	Lake Winnipeg	1.01×
Farther north	Lake Winnipeg	8.5° of latitude
Stretched more on a web map	Lake Winnipeg	2.7× against 1.9×

Both against the same yardsticks

Yardstick	Lake Winnipeg	Vermont
Belgium 30,700 km²	0.81×	0.80×
United Kingdom 244,000 km²	0.10×	0.10×
Germany 358,000 km²	0.07×	0.07×
Japan 374,000 km²	0.07×	0.07×
France 548,000 km²	0.05×	0.04×
India 3,151,000 km²	0.01×	0.01×
Brazil 8,473,000 km²	1 in 342	1 in 344
United States 9,447,000 km²	1 in 381	1 in 383
Russia 16,980,000 km²	1 in 685	1 in 689

Each figure is the place's area divided by the yardstick's.

Side by side

	Lake Winnipeg	Vermont
Is a	Lakelake on sizeversus	StateUnited States
Area, measured	24,800 km²9,570 mi²	24,600 km²9,510 mi²
Area, published	24,400 km²Wikidata	24,900 km²Wikidata
Rank by area	12th of 104lakes	–
Greatest depth	36 mWikidata	–
Volume	294 km³	–
Latitude range	50°N to 54°N	43°N to 45°N
On the shore	1 on the shore	–

Published figures: Wikidata (CC0). A lake or a sea has no legal boundary: the measured area is that of Natural Earth’s outline, and it is shown beside the published one.

Natural Earth’s outlines of Canada contain or lie within 4 km of the outline of Lake Winnipeg. That is what its geometry says, and it is not a statement about who owns the water or where any border runs in it.

Similar in size to Lake Winnipeg

Similar in size to Vermont

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Sources and method

Outlines: Lakes and seas: Natural Earth 1:10m physical vectors (public domain), kept only where the measured area is within 10% of the published one. Countries and regions: Natural Earth, 1:10m Admin 0 and Admin 1, public domain.
Boundary: De facto, as drawn by Natural Earth. A lake or a sea has no legal boundary of its own; the outline is a cartographic one.
Area: Measured on the WGS84 ellipsoid from the full-detail outlines, shown rounded. The published figure comes from Wikidata (CC0), fetched 2026-11-11, and is shown beside the measured one.
Drawing: Each outline is projected with an equal-area projection centred on its own centroid, so areas stay true and the two can be laid over each other.
Data built: 2026-11-11

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